About Masjid Muhammad

American Muslims Against Violence and Terrorism (AMATE) Initiative is a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Masjid Muhammad “The Nation's Mosque” designed to counter the narratives of violent extremism domestically.

We engage domestic stakeholders in order to raise awareness about the threat of violent extremism, while tapping into our 80 years of experience of providing alternative narratives and solutions to the problem of violent extremism.

Our goal is to be a comprehensive resource center, so that we create healthy, happy, involved communities that are resilient to all forms of violent extremism. We seek to support efforts, services, and resources of our communities for individuals who may be going down a destructive or harmful path.

After last year’s fall of Raqqa in Syria, in which US backed forces declared that major military operations against the so called Islamic State has ended, the broader Middle East and the international community is asking themselves what happens next? It marks the end of a self-declared Islamic “Caliphate” in which its supporters and recruits converged on the geographical location of parts of Syria and Iraq and controlled territory, influence and power. Now disbanded into a network of now a ragtag insurgency movement with remnants still in the region and on the online space; it was once a location converging various ethnicities, nationalities and groups of people from all walks of life going after one agenda: an utopian Islamist Ummah. In those ranks included individuals from the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, a small nation off the coast of Venezuela.